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Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael

An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.

1950s, Australian, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel, queer

Best books I’ve read 2022

My favourite reads of the year.

Australian, Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, queer

Review: Modern Nature by Derek Jarman

Sex, death, life, art — this diary about a garden has it all.

Diary, HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, UK

Review: Desire by Jessie Cole

A delicate study of needs and desires.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young

A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.

Aotearoa, Contemporary, Fiction, Fiji, Hawai’i, New Zealand, Pacific, Poetry, Samoa, Short stories, Vanuatu

Review: Tomb Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)

An epic novel that pushes at the boundedness of things.

Contemporary, Fiction, India, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer, Transgender, Translation

Review: Water Music by Christine Balint

A delicate novella about the production of art.

Australian, Female writers, Fiction, Historical, Italy, Music, Novella, Venice

Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.

Classics, Fiction, Novel, Speculative, UK

Review: The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals by Steve Brusatte

A lively history of our mammal kin.

Dinosaurs, Evolution, Mammals, Nonfiction, Palaeontology, science

Review: The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Michael Glenny)

A devilish romp through Soviet literary society.

Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, Russia, Satire

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